Quakertown man, 20, fatally shot in Philadelphia

A 20-year-old Quakertown man released from jail in April was shot to death in an apparent robbery in a residential neighborhood of North Philadelphia Tuesday night, Philadelphia police said Thursday.

Jacob Wedgie of the unit block of Elm Street in Quakertown had a single gunshot wound to his chest when Philadelphia police found him around 8:50 p.m. in the 1500 block of West Indiana Avenue near 15th Street. He was pronounced dead at 9:13 p.m. in Temple University Hospital, police said.

No arrests have been made. Police offered no information to explain why Wedgie would have been at that location Tuesday night.

Wedgie was jailed in Bucks County Jan. 24 after he and three other men were charged with beating a man and robbing him of cash and prescription pain pills in the parking lot of the Quakertown Farmers Market in Richland Township. Mathew Sheppleman told police the men took $500 and 10 Oxycontin pills from his pockets.

Bucks County court records show Wedgie was released from jail April 30 on a recognizance bond. He pleaded guilty May 26 to conspiracy to commit theft and simple assault, and sentenced to time served and two years probation. More serious charges of robbery and conspiracy aggravated assault were dismissed.

Anyone with information about shooting may call Philadelphia homicide detectives at 215-686-3334 or the department's anonymous tip line at 215-686-8477.